🎣 Fishing & Grilling Guide

Catching and grilling fish takes a bit of effort, but grilled fish fillets provide a lot of nutrition.

🥗 Two grilled fish fillets can almost refill an empty apple icon (hunger meter).

🐟 You can eat raw fillets, but they give you much less nutrition.

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🐠 How to Catch Fish

You can catch fish using either a fishing rod or a fish trap.

⚠️ The fish trap didn’t work for me during testing (Alpha version), so I’ll stick with fishing for now.

🎣 Crafting a Fishing Rod

To craft a fishing rod, you’ll need:

8x 🪵 Sticks

4x 🧵 Ropes

3x 🧩 Scrap Metal

🔹 How to get rope:

Gather fibers from bushes and undergrowth, then craft them into rope.

🔧 Once you have all materials:

1. Open your inventory.
2. Go to the Crafting tab at the top.
3. Select the "Survival" category.
4. Find the Fishing Rod and click Craft.

✅ You now have a fishing rod in your inventory.

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🌊 How to Fish

You can fish in any body of water:

Lakes 🏞️

Rivers 🏞️

The Sea 🌊

Steps:

1. Walk slightly into the water – be careful not to drown.
2. Equip the fishing rod.
3. Aim at the water until the interaction “Fish” appears.
4. Press F (or your interaction key) to start fishing.
5. Wait patiently 🕑 – it takes 2 to 4 minutes per attempt.

✅ You can move your mouse to look around.

1. When your character moves as if a fish is biting, press F again to reel it in.

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🔪 Gutting and Filleting Fish

In your inventory, you must gut the fish to turn it into fillets.

🧠 Fun fact: Fillets somehow take up more space than the whole fish. Go figure.

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🔥 Grilling Your Catch

Now it’s time to cook!

Build a fireplace and craft a grill (ideally the large grill grate).

Grilling Steps:

1. Light the fire.
2. Equip your fish fillets (via hotbar).
3. Aim at the edge of the grill until “Cook” appears.
4. Place your fillets on the grill.

👨‍🍳 The large grill can hold up to 9 pieces, but don’t mix food types (like fish + veggies) – this can cause issues (Alpha bug).

⚠️ Important:

If you have more than 9 items and try to place another one, the "Cook" option may change to "Eat" – and you might accidentally eat raw fish! 🤢

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✅ Cooking Done Right

After a while, grilled food changes color.

🎯 Aim at the fish – the label should now say “Fish Fillet (Grilled)”.

You can now collect it into your inventory.

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⚠️ Burnt Food Warning

Food can burn if left too long. Burnt food looks black.

🔥 You can still eat it, but:

It provides very little nutrition.

You’ll become extremely thirsty. You can literally watch your water icon drop. 💧👀

💡 Tip: Only eat burnt food in emergencies — and only if you have plenty of drinking water.

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🎉 Happy Fishing & Grilling Season

– Nanjan

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